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Virginia Tech’s Erick Green was part of a trade-crazed NBA draft Thursday night and landed with the Denver Nuggets. The Utah Jazz selected Green with the 46th overall pick, midway through the second round, but sent Green to Denver for cash and Rudy Gobert, a 7-foot-2 center from France, whom the Nuggets chose late in the first round. “So happy right now dreams come true. Glad to be heading to Denver,” Green tweeted shortly after midnight and less than an hour after his selection. Green worked out in Denver June 19, according to the Nuggets' website. That was the last of the team’s four pre-draft sessions, which included 21 players. Denver won a...

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Virginia Tech’s Erick Green was part of a trade-crazed NBA draft Thursday night and landed with the Denver Nuggets.
The Utah Jazz selected Green with the 46th overall pick, midway through the second round, but sent Green to Denver for cash and Rudy...

Even in what has been a down year to this point by North Carolina standards, there's still a difference in Virginia Tech's brand of fast-paced play and UNC's shot-out-of-a-cannon variety of basketball.
Tech coach James Johnson knows it. If all goes...

After his team’s 61-52 win Sunday night against North Carolina, Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett wanted to make sure he gave his players an opportunity to acknowledge the magnitude of the moment.
Beating Carolina is always a big deal in...

After much deliberation, hand-wringing and sweating, my All-ACC ballot has been filed. Here’s what I came up with (feel free to poke holes in it – that’s what these ballots are for, right?…to be critiqued, slammed and essentially laughed at?):
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Virginia's Joe Harris and Virginia Tech's Erick Green are experiencing very different seasons with their respective men's basketball teams, but they can say they have one characteristic in common.
They're both officially part of the Atlantic Coast...

A Virginia victory turning on a defensive stop is hardly man-bites-beagle news. That is how Tony Bennett’s program rolls.
But a Cavaliers’ conquest of North Carolina turning on a blocked shot rooted in raw athleticism is, shall we say, unusual.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — From tradition to talent to depth, there's no comparing the basketball programs at Virginia Tech and North Carolina. But for two-plus hours Saturday afternoon, the Hokies and Tar Heels looked as similar as John and Jim Harbaugh.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Saturday marked the first time in Tony Bennett’s seven seasons as a head coach that his team scored at least 80 points and lost. Safe to say, the experience was unpleasant.With his Virginia Cavaliers clawing toward an NCAA tournament...

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Hamilton is from Los Angeles and grew up going to Clippers games at Staples Center because he played on Lamar Odom's summer club team.
"When he was with the Clippers,...

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But it may take a few years for the Clippers to find out just how much they gave up to get him.
Reggie...

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Anthony Davis extended his massive arms early in the third quarter, grabbing a lob and stuffing it through the basket.
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Back and...

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(in predicted order of finish)
1. Spurs
2013-14: 62-20.
Coming: Kyle Anderson.
Going: No one of significance.
Despite all of their sustained success, the Spurs have never won back-to-back titles. In fact they never had reached the NBA Finals in...